Praslea The Mighty And The Golden Apples

PRASLEA THE MIGHTY AND THE GOLDEN APPLES

Once upon a time, there was a king who had in his garden a tree which made golden apples; but he never succeeded in tasting them, because someone used to come and stole them.

There were a lot of men who ventured to guard the apple tree, among these the king’s older sons too, but none of them succeeded in catching the thief. After a lot of requests, Praslea, the king’s youngest son, is allowed to guard the apple tree. He succeeded in wounding the thief and brought to his father thelong-expected fruits.

The three sons of the king decide to go after the thieves. They walk together until they arrive to a precipice and it is only Praslea who decides to descend there.

As soon as he reaches the other world, the king’s youngest son discovers that there is a dragon who keeps prisoner the daughter of a king.

Praslea fights the dragon, defeats him and saves the girl who asks him to free her sisters too, because they were also under the spell of the two dragons.

Afterwards, the brave man goes looking for the second girl.

After a terrible fight, he succeeds in defeating the second dragon too.

Then, he reaches the third castle.

The fight with the third dragon is even terrible than the other two, but the brave man is helped by a raven and by the king’s youngest daughter.

After he rests for a while, the king’s son turns the castles into three apples and he entrusts the older sisters to his brothers, the youngest one being his favourite.

His brothers save the girls, but they let go the rope the moment when they must save him too, wishing his death.

The brave man kills a dragon who wanted to eat the babies of a griffon.

As a reward for having saved its babies, the griffon takes the brave man to our world.

Praslea takes himself a job at a silversmith in his father’s town, because he found out that the king’s youngest daughter had asked to the one with whom she was going to marry, first a fork and then a golden hen. Therefore, Praslea decides to show the precious objects which he kept in the golden apple and which remained at him.

The king’s daughter realizes that only the brave man who saved her from the dragon could have been have to make such objects and she asked that the craftsman should come to the castle.

When he comes to the castle, the king’s youngest son is recognized by the girl and the king asks him to tell him what happened. When the king finds out the way his older sons treated their younger brother, he asks him to punish them. But, the punish comes from God, because the arrows shot in the air kills the guilty ones.

The youngest son marries the king’s daughter and after his father death he becomes the king of the empire.